When organizations select cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform, they sometimes find that the available tools for application delivery don’t match the sophistication of the enterprise‑grade traffic management devices in their own data centers.

This lack of sophistication can mean that applications are hard to control. It can result in sprawling infrastructure that is inefficient and more expensive to operate and manage.

An NGINX Plus Virtual Machine is a proven solution to the challenges of delivering high-quality applications and content from GCP.

Load Balance Your GCP-Hosted Applications

NGINX brings the power and control you need to your GCP environment, so you can operate services and deliver content at the high standard your customers and developers demand.

Professional services are available as an add-on service to assist with design and implementation, configuration audit, high-availability setup, performance optimization, and expedited code changes to resolve product issues.

Why NGINX Plus?

Simplify and Reduce Operating Costs

NGINX Plus supports domain and URL switching and routing, giving you greater control over how traffic is load balanced. This simplifies and reduces costs by enabling you to deploy multiple applications behind NGINX Plus.

NGINX Plus works with your applications to ensure that your users get the best possible performance, even in the face of large traffic spikes. SSL offload, caching, and bandwidth and rate control combine to deliver content to your users in a predictable and secure manner.

Based on the massively popular open source NGINX web server, NGINX Plus integrates easily with DevOps deployment processes. Simple text configuration files can be managed by standard tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. Load-balancing targets can be managed and updated by DNS – a key requirement in dynamic cloud environments.

Centralized logging and live activity monitoring make it easy to monitor application performance and availability and to plan for future growth.